Chronicles (magazine)
US political magazine
Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Charlemagne Institute and associated with the paleoconservative movement. Its full current name is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. It was founded in 1977 by the Rockford Institute, which later merged into a successor organization, the Charlemagne Institute. Paul Gottfried has been the editor-in-chief since 2021.
History
In the first years since inception in 1977, the magazine was an anticommunist bi-monthly called Chronicles of Culture, edited by Leopold Tyrmand (1920–85), pen name of Jan Andrzej Stanislaw Kowalski, a Polish novelist and co-founder of the Rockford Institute who had previously written for The New Yorker.
In its first decade, the magazine grew to some 5,000 subscribers, according to E. Christian Kopff. The magazine became a monthly publication in 1982. In 1984, Thomas Fleming joined as managing editor.
The magazine’s political influence reached its zenith in 1992 when prominent conservative journalist and politician Patrick J. Buchanan ran for president. His failed candidacies in 1996 and 2000 paralleled Chronicles’ drop in subscribers in the 1990s from nearly 15,000 to about 6,000.
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